{"id":5971,"date":"2015-04-13T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2015-04-13T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:22:37","slug":"next-up-cardinal-hickory-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5971","title":{"rendered":"Next up, ATC and ITC&#8217;s Cardinal &#8212; Hickory Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_160822_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5972\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_160822_resized-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20150412_160822_resized\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_160822_resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_160822_resized-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s Genoa, looking a lot like the Allis reactor that used to be up at Elk River.\u00c2\u00a0 Good to see Irv and George at the table yesterday!<\/p>\n<p>Greetings from utility infrastructure land&#8230; next up in the transmission build-out is the Cardinal-Spring Green-Hickory Creek, or whatever name they&#8217;re putting on it these days.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like the way they reverse it as if it&#8217;s going east to west when we know better, it&#8217;s export from Iowa and the Dakotas and maybe even Minnesota!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s to go from west of Dubuque (connecting to MISO MVP 4, I presume) to Cardinal (which is essentially Madison).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardinal-hickorycreek.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5978\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hickory-Creek.jpg\" alt=\"Hickory Creek\" width=\"421\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hickory-Creek.jpg 546w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Hickory-Creek-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardinal-hickorycreek.com\/\"><strong>Cardinal-Hickory Creek website<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So later today, I&#8217;ll try to get a photo of that Dubuque substation and where it might cross (there&#8217;s a big coal plant downtown).\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;ll mean another crossing of the Mississippi by a 345 kV transmission line.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;ll probably also mean another eagle take permit.\u00c2\u00a0 Just yesterday, between Red Wing and La Crosse, I counted 10 eagle nests, but the best one we saw was #11 near Genoa, with two eagles sitting in the tree next to the nest.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the map, and below is the Stockman plant in Cassville, with a substation that could be used, it&#8217;s in the study area on the northern end of the &#8220;study area&#8221; abutting the Mississippi (so where&#8217;s the map for the Iowa parts of this project?):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dubuque-Cardinal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5973\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dubuque-Cardinal.jpg\" alt=\"Dubuque-Cardinal\" width=\"435\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dubuque-Cardinal.jpg 907w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dubuque-Cardinal-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a>And here&#8217;s the Stockman plant, in Cassville &#8212; I wonder, do they know this could be coming their way?\u00c2\u00a0 Supposedly they&#8217;re doing the &#8220;public involvement&#8221; piece right now&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 There is transmission going both ways out of that plant, across the river and up the bluff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_183427_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5974\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_183427_resized-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20150412_183427_resized\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_183427_resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20150412_183427_resized-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Genoa, looking a lot like the Allis reactor that used to be up at Elk River.\u00c2\u00a0 Good to see Irv and George at the table yesterday! Greetings from utility infrastructure land&#8230; next up in the transmission build-out is the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5971\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[179,891,892,857,83],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuts-bolts","category-upcoming-events","tag-atc","tag-cardinal-hickory-creek","tag-hickory-creek","tag-itc","tag-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}